"I've heard tell on it."
"Now--and remember that you are not bound to answer--did you stab him?"
"I did not. I swear to God I didn't. After I pulled the trigger I done nothing to him at all."
"Is it possible that you were so drunk as to have been unconscious of what you did?"
"Not a bit of it. So soon as I see as I'd shot the wrong man that sobered me, I tell you. All I thought about was getting away. I went straight to my own place, two miles off."
"When you last saw this man he was still alive?"
"Very much alive he was."
"He had not been stabbed?"
"He hadn't, so far as I know."
"You must have known if he had been."